Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday, resulting in many Americans being forced to awkwardly fumble to recall knowledge of Chavez in casual conversations across the nation Wednesday.
“Chavez, that’s… he was bad, right?” said University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore and political science major Joseph Bunmus. “Or wait, was he the good one? There was definitely some guy that we wanted dead.”
Other students had passionate opinions on the subject, though many did not seem to know which way those opinions went.
“Good riddance! We simply cannot allow communist leaders to exist so close to the U.S. and threaten democracy. Maybe now Cuba will finally see sense,” said UW-Madison senior Makenzie Zales, who—despite the protests of her sorority sisters—refused to accept that she was thinking of Fidel Castro.
Other reports have indicated many people are trying to avoid the subject of Chavez’s death altogether to avoid conversational hurdles, although several ill-informed and grammatically questionable arguments about it have sprung up on local Facebook feeds.
